Research on the Evolution of Economic Law Theory

Author: Zhang Shiming
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: The growing fatigue with history has become a characteristic of the second half of the 20th century, not only in the struggling Chinese academia but also in the West. Contemporary social sciences are trying to drive away the role of historical thinking with self-assured rational thinking and increasingly sophisticated modern research methods, making historical studies increasingly "marginalized." However, Marx and Engels put forward an extremely important proposition: "We know only one science, the science of history." Marx is a Prometheus-like wise man, and it was he who, with the light of historical materialism, illuminated the long-misty field of social history, unveiling the curtain long covering the social body. "The uselessness of history" is indeed still widely prevalent in Chinese academia. In reality, what is considered "useless" often has great utility, but to those obsessed with quick results, it is merely the art of killing dragons. The second-generation master of the French Annales School, known to the world as the "Pope of Historians," Fei... [Browse more content]